The Application of Computer-Based Medical-Record Systems in Ambulatory Practice
- 21 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 310 (25), 1643-1650
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198406213102506
Abstract
In attempting to arrive at the truth, I have applied everywhere for information, but in scarcely an instance have I been able to obtain hospital records fit for any purposes of comparison. If they could be obtained, they would enable us to decide many other questions besides the one alluded to. They would show subscribers how their money was being spent, what amount of good was really being done with it, or whether the money was not doing mischief rather than good.FLORENCE Nightingale, who voiced this complaint in 1873 in a book entitled Notes on a Hospital, was . . .This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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